New Program! Step Up Your Leadership Game with Cynthia D'Amour

Step Up Your Leadership Game
Become a Go Team Go! Leader 

Are you dreading facing another year of great ambition – and not enough volunteers to get the work done?

Has your mantra of late been…

• People don’t want to get involved.
• Younger folks don’t want to join the chapter.
• I’m feeling burned out.

Do you dream of the magic cure that will transform your chapter from a tired group of leaders to a thriving, happening place with a surplus of volunteers eager to help?

Imagine waking up to a fresh day where your leadership skills seem to magnetically attract new volunteers everywhere you go.

This doesn’t have to be a dream.

What’s the formula for this outrageous success? 

Cynthia’s book Go Team Go! Strategies for Leading Today’s Teams to Victory.

It spells out step-by-step what you can do to be the leader members love to volunteer with.

This summer, Cynthia will be teaching six webinar playdates based on her Go Team Go! book.

Each session will help to build the skills you need to get the results you want. (You can attend all or any sessions.)

#1: How to Become the Leader Members Love to Volunteer For

Tuesday, June 10^th 1:00 – 1:50 PM ET

You are excited about stepping up to leadership this year. You believe in the potential of your chapter. You want to achieve great things.

You just need to learn how to work with today’s volunteers.

This session will give you the inside scoop for what it takes to achieve greater success. You’ll explore the difference between being a chapter leader and a Go Team Go! leader who is a volunteer magnet.

You’ll learn the skills that make a difference.

You’ll also learn five key mistakes you must avoid at all costs if you want to guarantee a fabulous year ahead.

After this session, you’ll be ready to start a new phase of life as a volunteer leader.

#2: How to Start Your Team on Strong Footing
Tuesday, June 17^th 1:00 – 1:50 PM ET

If you want to build a team of individuals who are committed to moving your mission forward, do what they say they will do – and enthusiastically work together, you must start them out on strong footing.

Learn the key elements to a great kick off meeting.

You'll also learn a little known, easy-to-use tool for increasing the odds of team success.

Starting strong helps insure your team also ends strong!

#3: How to Lead Board and Committee Meetings Your Members Enjoy Attending
Tuesday, July 8^th 1:00 – 1:50 PM ET

Just being on the team is not enough.

Too often committees (and boards) feel more like revolving doors than successful teams – and few members have time to waste on groups going nowhere!

Time spent in meetings must be meaningful and deliver value if you expect to keep volunteers engaged.

You need to step up your leadership skills to boost value for everyone who sits at your table.

Learn specific steps you can take to keep your members coming back meeting after meeting – and getting the work done too!

#4: How to Transform Boring Meetings into Dynamic Experiences
Tuesday, July 22^nd 1:00 – 1:50 PM ET

Boring meetings are passive experiences. Providing value requires creating space at meetings for meaningful conversation.

This session has two major elements...

In the first half you will explore strategies for eating more time on your agenda without creating marathon meetings.

In the second half, you will learn how to be more effective when teams are filled with members who want to play – who will challenge and stretch comfort zones to reach higher levels of success together.

Learn how to reach agreements when members have different points of view and to celebrate the strengths of diversity - rather than shut it down.
 

#5: Question Your Way to Success
Tuesday, August 12^th 1:00 – 1:50 PM ET

Push leadership – where it’s your way or the highway – no longer works well with volunteers.

Instead, today’s leader must be the master of asking dynamic questions to help you achieve your goals.

A great question can:

• Pull a team together.
• Focus a diverse conversation.
• Create understanding between competitors.
• Open eyes to new possibilities.
• Unleash creative solutions previously unseen.

Asking good questions takes practice and requires sensitivity from you to identify the type of questions to steer conversations in the direction you want the discussion to go.

Skilled questioners help members feel appreciated and are a joy to work with.

In this session you will learn when and how to ask questions – as well as what questions to ask to create desired results in a variety of situations.


#6: How to Survive and Thrive with Challenging Conversations
Tuesday, August 26^th 1:00 – 1:50 PM ET

When members are allowed to be passionate and involved, emotions may flare in discussions.

Offering a dissenting opinion is no longer a mutinous action.

You need to be skilled at facilitating healthy discussions to reach the enhanced levels of success possible.

In this session, you will learn how to set the tone for smoother sailing from the get go.

You’ll also learn strategies for getting past the ultimate volunteer roadblock – “But we’ve always done it that way” and other forms of resistance.

Thanks to your enhanced facilitation skills, you’ll start to experience richer conversations than you thought possible for your chapter.